HR 6716 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

To amend the Small Business Act to include certain critical access hospitals in the paycheck protection program, and for other purposes.

Introduced May 5, 2020 Originated House Sponsor Jared F. Golden D-ME

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 5, 2020 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMay 5, 2020
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

This bill expands the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), to encompass critical access hospitals.

A critical access hospital is a hospital that, among other things, is located in a rural area, furnishes 24-7 emergency services, and has 25 or fewer inpatient beds.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 5, 2020Introduced in House
  2. May 5, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Related bills 3

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 3907PPP for Critical Access Hospitals ActRelated billJun 8, 2020
S 4818Heroes Small Business Lifeline ActRelated billDec 10, 2020
HR 6800The Heroes ActRelated billJul 23, 2020

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. May 5, 2020Introduced in House

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.